It’s hard enough as it is to battle your weight or body image issues growing up, but at least early incarnations of reality TV featured a cross section of all of us.

For all their faults, the beauty of Jade Goody (Big Brother), Kerry Katona (Atomic Kitten then I’m A Celebrity) or Shayne Ward (X Factor) was that it felt like our next door neighbour becoming a superstar.

For all their faults, the beauty of Jade Goody or Kerry Katona was that it felt like our next door neighbour becoming a superstar

The Love Island contestants certainly don’t look like any of my neighbours or mates from school, they’re the aesthetic elite.

After all, this is a world where Alex George – Wales’ answer to George Clooney’s Doug Ross in ER – simply can’t get himself a date.

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Every decision on Love Island is made on a purely carnal basis and nothing to do with emotional compatibility.

In fact, this week we witnessed some of the contestants claim they were NOT compatible with Alex because he is intelligent and they’re not. This was said with a sense of pride, rather than embarrassment.

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She soon regretted it, but went on to snog the model, spurning the doctor.

It’s an issue I discuss in some detail with Saturday Night Takeaway star Scarlett Moffatt – a great role model to young women – in the new episode of my podcast The Dan Wootton Interview, which you can listen to for free by subscribing on iTunes or Apple Podcasts now.

The self-confessed Love Island superfan who, like me, has a long history of battling with her weight and self-confidence told me: “My little sister is soon to be 12 and I really worry that she feels like in order to have a relationship that she sort of has to have this, well what society would say, is the perfect image.

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“I just think everyone is different so we should maybe show that actually everyone’s different and that you can find love whatever you look like.

“I do just worry that we’re sending a message saying that this is the way that you’ve got to look.”
The immediate way to address this is by producers sending in some interesting, funny and attractive contestants with big personalities and, shock horror, big bodies too.